Detroit minister shoots attacker, debate on armed pastors continues

(The Christian Science Monitor) A good minister is supposed to protect his or her flock: pastor, after all, is Latin for shepherd. But should ministers carry guns?

The debate over arming preachers, and their congregations, may be rekindled this week after a Detroit pastor shot and killed a man who had a history of making threats against the church, who had entered the church on Sunday wielding a brick. 

The 25-year-old suspect, whom officials say had sought help from the City of God minister in the past, was shot multiple times at the start of the 1:30 service, and pronounced dead at the hospital.